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Bauhinia petersiana

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Name

Identification
Bauhinia petersiana Bolle [family LEGUMINOSAE ]
Related name
  • Bauhinia petersiana

Flora

Entry for Bauhinia petersiana subsp petersiana [family FABACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Bauhinia petersiana subsp petersiana [family FABACEAE]
Common names
B. petersiana Bolle in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 1 : 24 (1861); Oliv. in F.T.A. 2 : 288 (1871); Bak.f., Leg. Trop. Afr. 3 : 656 (1930); Wilczek in F.C.B. 3 : 274 (1952); Coates Palgrave, Trees Cent. Afr. 70 (1956); F. White, For. Fl. N. Rhod. 99 (1962); Brenan in F.T.E.A. Legum.-Caesalp.: 211, fig. 47 (1967); Tolken in Flow. PI. Afr. 39: t.1532 (1969); Drummond in Kirkia 8,2: 212 (1972); Drummond & Coates Palgrave, Common Trees of the Highveld 34 (1973). Perlebia petersiana (Bolle) Schmitz in Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 43 : 385 (1973). Type as for B. peter­siana.
Habitat
The indumentum on the lower surface of the leaf provides the most satisfactory character for distinguishing between the two subspecies. In subsp. petersiana the hairs are minute and closely appressed, while in subsp. serpae the hairs are longer and irregularly spreading or ascending but non-appressed.
Use
(a) subsp. petersiana Brummitt & Ross in Kew Bull. 30: 594 (1976).

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